6/22 Cards (Wacha) @ Cubs (Arrieta) 1:20 ABC

[dfnowak]

Contreras!

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Willson will save us, guys.

[Cubswin11]

Take your time to come back, Miggy

[UMFan83]

Schwarber goes down, we have Soler

 

Soler goes down, we (indirectly) have Javy

 

Dex goes down, we have Almora

 

Miggy goes down, we have Contreras

 

Yes not all of them are upgrades or equivalents but they aren't replacement level garbage either.

[Little Slide Rooter]

I guess you were not around in '69?

 

Tell us more grampa, tell us more.

 

Ah...I see. Knowledge of the game's history denotes geezerdom, huh?

 

No, but the allusion that something that happened nearly half a century has any relevance to a team full of guys who weren't even alive denotes trolldom.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Take your time to come back, Miggy

 

Say what you will, but Miggy is a great clubhouse presence. The good news is that now he can stay in the clubhouse and let Contreras take care of the playing baseball part.

[Aaron_Kennelly]

Patton at 94 is intriguing.

[UMFan83]

I'm not sure I'm ready to live in a world where the Cardinals are leading the season series over us.

[UMFan83]

7 Double Plays in this series now....

[bukie]

Looks like the Cubs record is going to even out at 4-4 when they allow 6+ runs.

[Cubswin11]

It would appear as though Brandon Moss will be the first player ever to win the Gold Glove at 1B and LF in the same year

[Aaron_Kennelly]

How had they not swept us at Wrigley since '88?

[imb]

 

At 9.5 back, they still won't be back in the division race, really.

 

I guess you were not around in '69?

 

oh, ive been around 69

[UMFan83]

So Cubs win 23 straight Arrieta starts, and then immediately lose 3 of the next 5 :/

[Aaron_Kennelly]

At least our week wasn't as bad as the Mets'.

[imb]

So Cubs win 23 straight Arrieta starts, and then immediately lose 3 of the next 5 :/

 

hey jayson stark, stick it up your narrow ass

[Andy]

How had they not swept us at Wrigley since '88?

Hard to believe given how many good STL teams and how many crappy Cubs teams existed in those intervening years.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

June Swoon imo

[jersey cubs fan]

June Swoon imo

http://i661.photobucket.com/albums/uu334/BADmeaningGOOD/GTFOH.gif

[Sosa21MVP]

47-23 is an okay record I guess.

[Cubswin11]

Obviously it's awesome and all to hope we have a historically good team, but I'm cool with if we just play .500ish baseball the rest of the way like we have over the last 20 games or so and everyone gets healthy by October.

[cubscausestress]

At least our week wasn't as bad as the Mets'.

 

It was equal to the Cardinals week as well.

[UMFan83]

Obviously it's awesome and all to hope we have a historically good team, but I'm cool with if we just play .500ish baseball the rest of the way like we have over the last 20 games or so and everyone gets healthy by October.

 

Yeah since they started out 24-6 they've gone 23-17 which is a 93 win pace. I'm fine with them playing at that pace the rest of the year but obviously I strive for and think they are capable of better. We will take our lumps while we have all these injuries but the upside is we are breaking in some talented players that will be valuable for us when we are back at full strength. All things you can live with when you build up a huge lead.

[TruffleShuffle]

crappy series. it happens.

 

onward and upward.

[halplm]

So I haven't been able to watch games this week, but I was obviously disappointed. In the other Arrieta losses recently, the umps were squeezing him, and letting the other pitcher throw off the plate for strikes. Did that happen today? I saw a half inning where Wacha was getting everything near the plate as a strike, but that was early in the game. Did Arrieta get the same calls? Seems he threw a lot of pitches.